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  • Played this song in my ensamble group in school, was awesome.

  • Sadly many of the fine 'Alan Parsons project' songs were sung by nonentities luckilly this one was perfomed by Eric Woolfson himself.

  • i was freaked out by this video in 1984, hey i was only 11 then :D

  • i wander if they got the idea for mannequins coming to life for this video was from the Twilight Zone episode when the girl was turned into a mannequin?

  • Creepy video!

  • @waxman80014 lol yes it sure is!

  • 1984 Boston Celtics theme

  • THIS video is so beautiful made, I am in awe *

  • Prime time is the time. We don't know when!

  • fortune favours the flavour what a shaggy dog story

  • This reminds me of a book I read recently, "Kongo Days" by Lord Rutherford-Banks (London, 1900) "I noticed one of the bearers chewing meditatively on an oddly coloured meat. I asked my guide Ouloo what he was eating.

    "It is flesh of White man. Chango (the bearer) says the White was high in schooling and therefore his flesh is very high in antioxidants."

  • The deepest song I ever heard.

  • Spot On!!!... was given an Copy of Eye in the sky years ago.... Still love it to this day!!!!!!

  • I didn't even know this song had a music video.

    This is sooooooooooo much better than Don't Answer Me - I wish this was more popular than that song.

  • @Foxhack Concordo plenamente.

    

  • This song has such a great message it is great on so many levels....

  • The Project hit #34 in Billboard, 6-30-84. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! RIP, Eric Woolfson. Shalom!

  • Sin duda unas de las mejores canciones que tiene Alan Parsons junto con las de lucifer o eye in the skie etc

  • orig written as theme song for the "Igor Presley Varietal Show" in Latvia

  • what a masterpiece

  • Probably my favorite group I like everyone one of their songs in the entire discography. Only group I can really say that.

  • it is just such a great song, i heared it once, and now can't stop lisening to it...it is breathtaking!

  • @Cuteblondie1972 As a matter of fact...they did. You definitely can tell Alan Parsons likes science fiction and fantasy.

  • This video freaked me out as a kid. Almost like that Twlight Zone story "The After Hours". Great song from the Parsons Project.

  • Great music you do guys....You're rare!

  • The Genius of cool. The Masters of Easy. Alan Parsons et.al.

  • My wife pointed out to me it can also pay homage to Dr. Who, specifically the Nestenes who brought plastic to life and used mannequins. The episodes I'm thinking of are the first Jon Pertwee story "Spearhead from Space," "Terror of the Autons," which was also the first episode to feature The Master, and the first episode of the revived Dr. Who "Rose" which featured Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor.

  • @RedStickHam I totally forgot about the Autons from Doctor Who. Thanks for the info.

  • lets not forgedt that back in 1984 the late, great Malcolm, The X Man, invented Hip hop in Youngstown, Ohio. It was at a nite spot called PRIME TIME and many famed singers appeared there like Elvis, Elton and Cher. I was there recently with my group Congo Conga for a tribute to these wonderful stars who b rought so much pleasing to all the music-loving people in Youngstown and cities al;l over the great state of

    Ohiio

  • Just the right touch of optimism and melancholy.

  • Adoro APP, boa época de namoro e muita curtição...

  • great great song nuff said!!!!!!!!

  • I had this record in 1984 in High School, and still do today. Great timeless music never dies!!!

  • Truly a very underestimated band. Amonia Ave is my favorite APP album... Eric Woolfson will be missed by all the fans. What a haunting video,I LOVE IT!

  • Was the concept from a Twilight Zone episode?

  • @garebear1015 No, though I'm sure they were influenced by it. It's also a bit like the 1978 film "Tourist Trap", where a demented man turns living people into mannequins in a rather ghastly way...

  • @shmuli9 I remember that film too, but didn't relate it to this video. It reminds me of a cross between a Twilight Zone episode and an episode of Boris Karloff's Thriller. The Twilight Zone episode features a department store dummy that comes to life and lives in the real world for a month, then goes back to the store and another goes out for a month. The Thriller episode featured a woman who was married to an abusive tailor and had dressed up a dummy and named it Hans. Creepy.

  • @RedStickHam Yes... they did TWO episodes of the Mannequin in the department store thing. In the first one (1963), the mannequins were actually fairly nice; in the remake (in the mid-80s) they were kind of menacing...

  • @shmuli9 I've seen both versions of this episode, which was called "The After Hours." It also reminds me of the second story in the Peter Cushing film "Asylum", which deals with a tailor who makes a suit that can bring a dead man back to life, similar to the episode of "Thriller" I mentioned. Twilight Zone, Thriller, they don't make TV like that anymore, and they don't make music like this anymore either.

  • @RedStickHam I'll have to look up "the Asylum"... I used to LOVE Hammer films, as did my mother. (My dad andmy sister didn't particularly care for horror movies.)

  • yea this music still hands up :)

    Imagine a music video with NOOO Lyp syncing :O

  • This song is super easy on guitar!! Can't believe Wooflson passed away. Now the band isn't complete.

  • @airondb101 Super easy on guitar?? Please explain?? Not the lead playing, Ian Bairnson plays beautifuly!!!

  • @bassmanjoe Well, I can't quite find the right chords but the parts I do know that are right.

  • This is a great song. It has good lyrics and it has a melancholy feeling.

  • Classic 1984...APP will always have a spot on my ipod for this song and many others -

  • bfffffffff this song was my idol :(

  • @lazerbeamcheck Moody Blues American? Sorry my friend they are quite English. Hurumph and all that..

  • Would love to have a huge amp and bose 101s in my garage and crank it up and do some fucking woodwork

  • legendary videos....

  • legendary videos!!!!! awesome music

  • @dogmatic82 Yeah!

  • APP is hands down one of the best bands ever in rock history! Kudos to the Woolfson & Parsons duo for giving us such great music that will always live on!

    Btw, I don't mean to sound like an idiot, but could someone please explain the concept of the video to me? :D

  • @beatleaholic Did you ever see the Twilight Zone episode about the mannequins? I think?

  • @beldapriest yesss! I remember it!

  • the eternal this great my music of 80 child very child

  • @lazerbeamcheck Because you are American?

  • I remember this on MTV!!..I really liked the video..didn't care much for the elevator music..I do like APP..he pretty much made the kind of music he felt like making at the time and this song must have been a boring time in his life..still great video

  • Great song... Is always nice to hear it.. :)

    Thanks for posting.

  • la cancion es muy buena el video es pesimo

  • Of course it is progressive rock! APP was one of the bands

    defining style. All their albums are

    conceptual! Alan was a sound engineer for Pink Floyd

    Dark Side of the Moon.

  • This is not progressive rock. You can file it under "crossover" or "aor" , but it's far from PROG as we know it.

  • A masterpiece, & music, the likes of which we'll not hear again. Wolfsky79

  • Who was the actress in this? She looks a bit like Carla Gugino, but she would've been a teenager when this was shot.

  • Progressive rock at it's finest by the ultimate artisans of the genre. APP is the bomb, pure and simple.

  • @JimSting , not prog. File it under "crossover" or "aor".

  • As a kid when I first popped Amonia Ave ony turntable, the subtle start of the songans then the layering of all the remaining sound that came in had me snared and I knew APP had me for life, but what kills me is those dark menacing pictures of Alan Parsons himself, kinda like Jesus with a chip on his shoulder! I like that!

  • Something in the air... hey those mannequins went on to star in Old Navy commercials.

  • Oh wow! I didn't know the Alan Parsons Project did music videos. Why am I the last to know about these things?

  • 362000

  • Eric Woolfon whilst good seems to have achived God status by being deceased, I liked the man and his works but chill out.

  • @nic01944 eric woolfson was a wonderful lyricist writer though according to parsons he would agonize when it came to writing them well as  people know writers are perfectionists i understand your comment it has happened before where people are moved the late princess diana a prime example understand me i'm not belittling an event that obviously struck a strong emotinal chord but maybe thats the point the loss of people not because of what was achieved but what was left not done.

  • this song gave me chills as a teen, kinda still dose

  • Certainly a good reason of getting a bit older, is that we can turn back on some great songs that really have placed a mark in our head. With almost everything that APP has produced I can recall a thing in my life when just buying the albums. That means APP was a super band!! And timeless to me! Thx for sharing!

  • @ludo281160 Timeless and a super band it still is and will be.

  • this is like that Twillight Zone episode about the Mannequins who became alive for 1 month then had to return

  • when was your "prime time? I`ve had yet to find even one song by these guys that doesnt take me back to a pleasant memory

  • when was your "prime time?

  • Very rare that a song hits on so many truths about this world as a whole, and our lives. Alan Parsons song's are extremely underrated, and speak so much truth. My guess is that people don't like it, because they can't handle it. I can attribute this songs, and these lyrics to MANY situations in my life.

  • @22RZE maybe thats the point the honesty in erics lyrics to prime time was to hard for people to hear.frank honesty even partially hidden can scare people and people do irrational things when confronted with truth.

  • its great to see a good video with a PLOT instead of Lip syncing :-)

  • Wow, I haven't heard this song in forever! Thanks for posting it!

  • seguro...nada es seguro....

  • It's amazing that you can still love a song like this after so many years. I bought the LP in 1984 and I still think its a great album. Trouble is, not many of my friends have heard of any or the APP tracks so they dismiss the music straight away. Fortunately my wife likes the APP music. Particularly Limelight, there is another classic. RIP Eric

  • Can somebody teleport me back to this amazing "Prime Time"

  • AMazingly enough the Video still holds up :)

  • First heard this tune on a magical train journey through the southern deserts in Arizona. Was in a dreamy 1940s restored train car with only two or three other folks. This nice guy in the car loaned me his head set which was this recording and others by APP. The stars were bright out in the sky as this classic train chugged along and I went into an alternate reality as I listened. Magic!

  • Never seen this before. thank you. I thought Ammonia Avenue was a one of their best, though my favourite is Vulture Culture. I do think that this is a little fast though compared to the original

  • most of us grew up on there music.

  • Alan Parsons Project never was miss underrated

  • kids haven't picked up on this like Queen, Boston or EWF. Need to have some movie sountracks use these tunes instead of just a Dr Evil gag.

  • I remember a twilight Zone story of Mannequins that get 30 days to be alive...

    Freaky :)

    at 3:20 she shoulda fought the mannequins they are not dangerous :o

  • Awesome and yet so many people will ever have heard of thier music , one of the best band ever

  • please, upload the original video of TIME (which was a sequenceof surrealistic images)

  • I have almost everything they have dine..what a great band.

  • Store room dummy

  • One of my Favorite songs by the project. This video is so true! We ALL need our PRIME TIME in life just once. Great song, Great video, Great Song, GREAT BAND! Juniquejulie

  • Believe me. This music brings some sort of illness to my soul & heart. It transports me to another time when everything was happy and easy.

  • @barbarian981 There is no such thing as a soul but I'm glad to see other people still enjoying this great music

  • I don't remember this song, but I remember the video.I had forgotten about it, but it reminds me of an episode of the old black & white Twilight Zone. Not a specific episode, I just mean it's as if it were an unfinished script that was made into a video instead.

  • still the best band i have ever seen thanks for posting it!!!!

  • Eric Woolfsoon is dead???

    NOO!!!!

    :-(

  • from what year is this?..... this was the sound of my childohood. THANK YOU DAD wherever you are.

  • Eric gave his prime time, as we were experiencing ours...

  • Yep .. sad that Eric passed. However... we all will pass.. we can just be greatful for what he left us with.. before he went.

  • For ever Eric Woolfson.

  • Ammonia Avenue, tengo ese disco bien guardadito!

  • Every time I listen to this song I am reminded of my childhood - it takes me back and I am able to relax. It's too bad Eric Woolfson passed away , he will be missed.

  • Looks like the sequel to "Don't Answer Me"? I love it!!

  • excelente video

  • SO ODD!

  • Geniales unicos.

  • @mountaindewfanHD Mercy por el video.

  • R.I.P. Eric Woolfson - Thank you for your incredible gifts to the music world!

  • Much love and respect to Eric Woolfson and his family. Your music will live forever and you will always be remembered!!!!!!!!!!

  • what a tune, super underrated song. masterpiece

  • great video. i don't find it spooky, it depends on how you look at it.can be interpreted in many ways

  • Hell!! didn't know Eric has died what a loss to us all - RIP E shall miss you the worlds a lonelier place now.

  • @mergaman4 shut the fuck up

  • @mountaindewfanHD I don't know what has offended you my friend because I don't consider I made any remarks that could have offended anyone. After being a great fan of his and think that he had a great voice, talent and just a generally nice fellow. So why you have decided to communicate with me in this manner is quite beyond my comprehension. I can only guess that it has brought back some sad memories for you and if it did by my comment - I sincerely apololigise.

  • @mergaman4 no just kidding i did that just to be funny sorry

  • @mountaindewfanHD Well at least you have had the decency to admit to your mistake and I think that takes a very special sort of person to admit one's mistakes these days, especially when one sees the sort of comments that some individuals post on this site. All the best for the future - M

  • My very first favorite group. RIP Eric.

  • cool video reminds me of some of the blue niles work.

  • Rip Eric Woolfson

    Very trippy video. As someone else said, perfect nightmare material. I only just discovered the death of Eric Woofson on wikipanion. Eric was than just the voice behind APP. He was half the creative force behind what made APP as fantastic as it was. I'm so grateful for all the years of pleasure he brought me and the millions of other fans. Good night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. Sleep dwell upon thine eyese, peace upon thy breast!

  • Eric Woolfson was a wonderful man...this music is eternal

  • @FUNDRIVER73 woolfspirit. he sings as good as he produces.

  • @FUNDRIVER73 Not just eternal but absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!!!

  • Very sad. RIP Eric.

  • One of the most underrated songs for sure.

  • Always reminds me of "The After Hours" episode of The Twilight Zone series... surely an inspriation for the video? Love this video!! (And the TZ episode)

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  • los vi en Tenerife 2 veces..nunca pense que veria a uno de mis idolos en directo ..y menos que le fuera a estrechar la mano... son un icono de la musica y a la vez son muy humildes...algunos deberian de aprender

  • One of the best pop group. Sad to read that eric woolfson die...

  • Eric Woolfson 1945-2009 RIP

  • Gracias Eric y Alan por estas buenisimas canciones.

  • There's something about shop window dummies, isn't there. An episode of Doctor Who in1970 (an another in 2005) used them as killing machines, prompting a spate of complaints from the public. I love the laughing one in this video - perfect nightmare material.

  • what a motivating song......positive.......gets your blood pumping

  • Eric...RIP, You'll always have the Prime Time for us!!

    sooo sad...

  • RIP Eric Woolfson  :(

  • Excelente canción.

  • When I was little,this video scared the hell out of me!!! But,I like the song though...

  • Looks like a twilight Zone style (I loved that show !!!)

  • i absolutely adore this song. i found the video a bit weird at first but it's grown on me.everyone can interpret it in their own way

  • Isn't the video based on an old Twilight Zone episode?

  • I really do not think the video/song resembles the Twilight Zone. The one you're thinking of, "The After Hours."

    The plot consists of a mannequin named, "Marsha White"...

    taking an Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store--an elevator carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary, run-of-the-mill errand. She's looking for a gold thimble...in the Twilight Zone. :-) I love that episode tremendously! You must see the end! It's can't miss! :D

  • Thanks for posting this song. I searched for three days through all the Alan Parsons material for this one.

    Great to hear it again after twenty five years.

  • Great song. Awful video.

  • the song is excellent, but the video I don' like

  • The repeated "Maybe the stars were right" line makes me think of the Call of Cthulhu.

  • la mejor de alan parsons

  • what a song! :)

  • I think this is the last lp that has the original APP sound,the songs I have heard from Vulture Culture sound too synthesized which came out after Amonnia Avenue ,by that time in 85 music had a overdone electronic sound ,and some artist were thinking that the guitar had seen its better days ,yea great thinking

  • I notice the chorus has the same chords as the Transformers theme. Considering their relative release dates, I think Prime Time influenced the Transformers theme - also 'Prime Time' is too good a TF joke to pass up.

  • I'm not sure where the chords match up but if they do that would seem rather ironic.

  • Great song, brilliant video! APP rules! Well, then at least...

  • Still! ;)

  • Creative video that's a great match for one of APP's best songs. Awesome!

  • O_o

  • still creeps me out.

  • This video scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

  • oha..... would have scared me too..

    first time, I see this video. It's great ^^

  • "Oha" u turkish, friend?

  • AHha degildir ya.

  • GREAT song!

  • thx 4 sharing this video with us. very rare. a french fan of APP

  • this one creepy ass video!

  • Yesssssssssssssssssssssssss!

  • think this was much influenced by pink floyd

    sound is almost the same

  • considering Alan did some engineering work on 2 PInk Floyd albums (Atom Heart Mother and Dark Side Of The Moon), then this would be Alan's tip of the hat to them.

  • Exactly Sheriff !!!...

  • @kronik191 Eric sounds a little like Rick and Dave singing.He definately sing better than Roger.I used to think Eric sang the part on the song Time that Rick sang.Because Alan engineered DSOTM

  • Fantastico un grande hallazgo

  • thank heavens this video prime time is in here. I requested this song in 1985. I miss this song and others after the nineteen eighties

  • I just miss the 80's full stop. I hate being old.